CHINE
Rare covered wall fountain and its three-legged circular basin, covered and openwork, painted on copper in famille rose enamels. The body of the fountain is decorated with two women and a child looking at two roosters facing each other in a garden, framed by flowers and foliage; lotus on a green grid background on the cover. The basin is decorated with flowers framing the same scene with women, child and roosters. Fountain base with mascaron head and gilded metal dolphin-head spigot.
18th century (restorations, chips and missing enamel).
H fountain : 57 - D basin : 41 cm
Provenance:
"Jeremy", London, 2006. An openwork circular basin without its fountain, with flower motifs, in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, catalog no. 90-91.
